Julie Rodrigues Widholm

Julie Rodrigues Widholm is the director of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) at UC Berkeley, since 2020. Previously, she was the director and chief curator of the DePaul Art Museum in Chicago, where she curated exhibitions of many chicago-based and international artists, including Whitney Bradshaw, Brendan Fernandes, Ângela Ferreira, Julia Fish, Beverly Fresh, Eric J. Garcia, Karolina Gnatowski, Barbara Jones-Hogu, Betsy Odom, among others. Prior to 2015, when she joined the DePaul Art Museum, Rodrigues Widholm was curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, where she curated curated survey such as Escultura Social: A New Generation of Art in Mexico City and Unbound: Contemporary Art after Frida Kahlo, as well as solo exhibitions of Rashid Johnson, Amalia Pica, Cauleen Smith, Kathryn Andrews, and Amanda Ross-Ho.